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Magazine Stove. I No. 84,890. Patented Dec. 15,1868.

N. PEI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON D c.

is fitted upon and secured permanently to the upper EGBERT MACY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN H. KEY- SE B, OF N E W Letters Patent No. 84,890,

YORK CITY.

dated December 15, 1868.

(.Z'OVIEER FOR FUEL-MAGAZINE IN BASE-BURNING STOVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Pa.tent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Beiit known that I, EGBnnT'MAoY, of the city and county of'New York, in the State of New York, have, invented a new and improved (lover for the Fuel- Magazine of a Base-Burning Stove; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a diametrical section: through the upper portion of a fuel-magazine, having my improved cover applied to it.

Figure 2 is a central section through the up'perportion of a fuel-magazine with my cover applied to it, taken in a vertical plane at right angles to the sectional plane of fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a top view of one half of the cover and magazine.

Figure 4 is a diametrical section through the flaring rim of the fuel-magazine, with its cover detached.

Figure 5 is a side view of the cover detached from the rim of the fuel-magazine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. 7

It is important to keep the upper ends of the fuelmaga'zine or reservoirs of base-burning stoves tightly closed except during the act of supplying these reservoirs with coal, and for this purpose removable covers and sliding covers have hitherto been used. These are objectionable for various reasons, and particularly because, through carelessness of servants, the reservoirs are frequently left uncovered, so' that gas and dust escape into the room, and render itvery unpleasant.

The object of my invention is to provide fuel-reservoirs with self-acting covers which will open and allow fuel to descend into the reservoirs, and close tight-1y immediately the weight of fuel is removed from them, thereby keeping the reservoirs closed except in the act of supplying them with fuel, as will be herein after explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe one practical mode of carrying it into effect.

In the accompanying drawings- A represents a flaring or funnel-shaped rim which end of the cylinder B.

This cylinder B represents the upper portion of the fuel-reservoir of a base-burnin g stove, which stove'may be made in any of the well-known ways.

The circular rim A is constructed with two inside. recesses, a a, located diametrically opposite each other, which receive and keep in place the pivots of a tilting cover, 0.

.One side or half of the lower edge of rim A is depressed so as to form an inclined abutment, c, for the inclined lip e, of cover 0, to bear against when this cover is .closed.

Theopposite side or half of the lower edge of n'ni A has a horizontal ledge, g, formed upon'it for receiving the lower edge of a flange, (1, upon one-half of the cover 0, as shown in figs. l, 4, and 5.

The rim A thus constructed is adapted for receiving and supporting a cover, 0, which is constructed with.

so that when there is no weight put upon the cover it will of itself assume the closed position shown in fig. V

1. In the act of supplying the reservoir with coal, the coal will fall upon the cover 0, and owing to the inclination thereof thecoal will 'slide downward and cause the cover to tilt open, as indicated by dotted lines in 1 and 2. When the cover has thus discharged its load of coal, it will again assumea closed position.

To prevent the cover from turning over, lugs s are cast upon it, which, when the cover is fully open, as indicated in dotted lines, fig.'l, will ab'nt against the termini of the ledge One of these lugs, s, is shown. in fig. 5.

I have made the cover, which is represented in the drawings, concave, sothat the coal which falls upon it will slide toward its centre, at the same time-that it caused to slide downward. This gives the cover somewhat the form of a scoop, and prevents coal from lodging upon it at its pivotal points.

Having described one practical mode o providing a fuel-reservoir with a self-acting cor er, I do not desire to be understood as confining my invention to the pre cise form and construction of the cover shown in the drawings, as I believe that I am the first to have practically applied a self-acting cover to such reservoir.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-'- 1. The combination of a self-acting cover with a fuel-reservoir, substantially as described.

2. The inclined self-acting cover 0, applied to arm), A, constructed substantially as described. I 3. The construction of rim A with abutments c g and recesses a a, adapted for receiving a self-acting cover,

C, substantially as described.

EGBERT MAGY. Witnesses:

WILLIAM TURTON, I WILLIAM F. Hunsron. 

